New Work Laptop Antony Apple launched their own laptop/desktop silicon line, starting with the M1, back in 2021. Of course, Apple isn’t just starting out here. …
New Storage Server Antony I’ve had my current server, a NAS mostly used for plex, for almost 10 years. It has performed perfectly, and in 10 years I’ve only had a …
Why Do Companies Sabotage Themselves? Antony Just in the last month, three companies have decided to screw over their customers hoping to make a few extra bucks. All three have …
What I Don't Like About iOS Antony So, I’ve been using iOS now for around 2 months. There’s a lot to like, but also a lot to dislike. Google and Apple have copied each other …
Discovering iOS apps Antony After 14 years on Android, I switched to an iPhone 14 Pro Max last week. The hardware is, as expected, excellent. I just needed to learn the …
Switching to iOS Antony I’ve used Android exclusively since the original HTC Dream (AKA T-Mobile G1) That was 14 year ago! I’ve had countless Android phones since …
Steam Deck Update Antony I’ve now had my Steam deck for a few months. It’s an incredible device with just three flaws. Middling battery life, a mediocre screen, and …
Upgrading my server to AlmaLinux 9 Antony I have been running my current server running CentOS 7 for almost 8 years. It runs Plex, acts as a NAS, and runs a few other small things. …
Keychron Q3 Antony Earlier this year my old Cooler Master Masterkeys Pro S mechanical keyboard started giving me problems. It uses a micro USB connector, and …
Google Cancels Free Workspace Accounts Antony Google just announced that they’re removing free Google Workspace accounts. This is yet another terrible anti-consumer move by Google. How …
Xbox Acquisitions Antony Microsoft just announced their intention to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69B. Less than a year after acquiring Bethesda for $7B. This …
ThiefMD Antony Many, many years ago I used Evernote. It was fine, but I never loved it. Over the years Evernote lost its focus, trying to solve all kinds …
Pushover Antony I’ve been using Pushover since 2012. It’s a service that allows you to programmatically send instant push notifications to your devices. …
SSH'ing into Unifi Antony As I’ve posted about before, my home network is powered by Unifi gear. Since setting it up, I haven’t fiddled with it much. Due to warnings …
How Customer Obsession Relates to Success Antony I’ve worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for almost 7 years now. Amazon is famous for its leadership principles. The intent of these …
Sublime Tooling Antony I’ve used Sublime Text for the last 9 years. It’s great for my needs. It is simple yet extensible, and thanks to being written in C++ rather …
My WFH setup Antony When the pandemic started I already owned a pair of Bose NC 700. They’re great, with long battery life, and include multiple high-quality …
The Steam Deck Antony All the work Valve has been doing to make Linux a viable gaming OS has led to this one device: The Steam Deck, and I’m really excited. It …
Building Boxcars Antony I thought we’d start the summer with a fun project, so I ordered some boxcars for my two older sons. There were a lot more parts than I …
Selling a car Antony Last week I sold a car. I decided to use Tred. You get far more money selling a car privately vs trading it in at a dealership. But then you …
Moving to enterprise networking gear Antony I’ve been rocking a fairly high-end, though consumer-grade, Asus RT-AC88u router for the last 5 years. It’s been Rock solid. Zero issues. No …
Building a Calculator Antony My first job after university was designing analogue circuits and programming their firmware. I skipped larger through-hole and went …
Redhat abandoning CentOS Antony My thoughts on Redhat’s announcement that they’re abandoning CentOS. Facts. CentOS is a binary compatible RHEL build. CentOS was doing just …
New Computer Antony My current PC is 6 years old. It’s surprising it is still working as well as it does. It’s a testament to how well Intel was doing back …
Comcast Antony As I’ve lived at my new house for 12 months, you can guess that my Comcast XFinity bill increased. It increased by $20, and yet, the bill …
My Tennis Racquet History Antony Over the last 20+ years I’ve played with many different tennis racquets. As a child I remember 2 different junior Wilson aluminium racquets …
Pixel XL Antony Starting with the Nexus 4, I’ve owned every single Nexus phone. They were cheap, high spec devices with few compromises (the most complained …
AWS Lambda Antony After two and a half years running the back end storage data plane of Amazon S3, I’ve decided to join the Amazon Lambda team. I’m really …
Denon AVR-X2300W Antony Two months ago I bought a 4K TV. The problem was, I was still using a 1080p Denon Receiver, so I was still only able to watch TV at 1080p. I …
Vizio M65-D0 Antony I’ve been rocking a cheap Vizio E-series 1080p TV since Black Friday 2012. I now have a 4K HDR capable nvidia Shield, and I’ve been itching …
gnome-mpv Antony I’ve used VLC for more than 15 years. Even before I switched to Linux, I used VLC. It can play anything! However, they haven’t been making …
Wiring the house with cat6 Antony Last week we moved in to our new house. I decided I wanted cat6 ethernet between my office - where the comcast modem (ARRIS SB6183) and my …
Goodbye wordpress, hello hugo! Antony In a previous post I described moving my homepage to hugo hosted on Netlify. Now I finally took the time to move my wordpress blog over …
Jumping on the static site generator bandwagon! Antony Much of the web these days (>26%) is built on WordPress. Its popularity is likely based around a few reasons: Its usage of common server …
Amazon Web Services Antony 9 months ago I accepted a job offer with Amazon Web Services. I haven’t posted anything since. Partly because the new job required moving …
Thoughts on Apple’s announcements Antony I haven’t posted in a really long time. Mostly because of this. I really like the below quote from Apple’s biggest and most biased fanboy: …
Enter the Nexus Antony As rumoured (and expected), Google announced the Nexus 6 phone/phablet last month: And the Nexus 9 tablet: The big shock for many was …
Newegg customer service Antony For several years now, I’ve noticed Newegg customer service get worse and worse. 15 years ago, I used to order computer parts from them all …
Bait and Switch Antony We live in a world where many companies have been very successful giving an app or game away for free, and charging for extras – called IAPs …
Google I/O 2014 Antony A month and a half ago, I went to Google I/O 2014. I’d been wanting to go for a long, long time, and finally managed to get tickets! In …
ChromeOS Antony Denisse had been using my old laptop for the last 5 years. It still worked fine, and, because it runs Linux, was still stable, reliable and …
Almond Plus Antony I backed my first Kickstarter in March of 2013. It was for a new network router. The company behind it already makes a router (the original …
Company responses to Heartbleed Antony I haven’t posted in a really long time. These days I do shorter status updates through social networks, and haven’t felt the need for a long …
Vizio Co-Star Antony Back when the first Google TV launched, I bought the Logitech Revue. After playing with it for a couple of days, it was obvious that it was …
Nexus 7 Antony Google has had a tough year getting Android tablets to take off. The iPad has dominated the high-end, and unofficial Android tablets like …
New router Antony Since I got my new server, I realized I’d have to upgrade my internal network to make the most of it. I’d had my current 100Mb network with …
New server Antony I’ve always disliked the idea of having a server in my own home. Real server hardware is big, loud, hot and expensive. The alternative is to …
The importance of having a web presence Antony I have a neighbour who emailed me the other day. This neighbour sells insurance. His email signature said (note, name changed) “John Smith – …
(yet another) new phone. Antony HP wanted to compete with Apple and Google. Rather than just make hardware and license Windows, they wanted to own the complete product, …
ebook readers Antony If you live in the USA, there are really only two choices for a traditional ebook reader. Barns and Noble’s Nook, and Amazon’s Kindle. Both …
Sprint customer support Antony I’ve had my Sprint account for about 6 years now. I’ve been very happy with the prices and reception. Their customer service, however, has …
GNOME vs Ubuntu Antony With today’s release of Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu has officially diverged from the default GNOME. For those of you who don’t know, in the open …
protecting personal information Antony For reasons that aren’t important, I bought 2 used mobile phones yesterday (for family members). The sellers were both in their 20s and I …
All browsers created equal?!? Antony A statement that hasn’t been true since the release of Firefox 1.0 is now truer than ever. It’s shocking to think, but Microsoft have …
are there updates available? Antony Everyone who knows me knows I love technology. I love everything about it. I especially like the fact that in the last few years most …
Yet another mobile phone Antony Those of you who know me know that a little over six months ago I started a new job at HP working on their Web Print Solutions team. Leaving …
Finally, a professional chess program for Android! Antony Those of you who read my blog know I’m a big fan of Linux and all things open source. That’s one of the reasons I like Android. As I …
The cost of engineering Antony I read something very interesting the other day while looking for a Firmware update to my Samsung LN46b650 HDTV. An owner of the same TV as …
VLC 1.10 released Antony VLC is one of those apps that almost does too many things. Most people use it to decode (watch) videos. But VLC can also encode, stream, …
The web of the future may be free from Flash! Antony Today was day 1 of Google I/O 2010. It’s basically a conference where Google show’s all their new tech to the world. But first, some …
Google's Android, secrecy and openness. Antony So, Google’s Android is open source right. Sorta true. It is in the general sense, the problem is that most of the phones running it need …
A new OSS compression: XZ Antony XZ compression has actually been out for a little while, but it just recently began to build traction in Linux distributions. It has been …
A review of VoIP provider Ooma Antony For those of you who haven’t heard of Ooma, it’s a phone service that runs through your internet connection (VoIP). All you need is a …
My thoughts on the iPhoneOS 4.0 Antony I’d been meaning to post this earlier, but we have some pretty major deadlines at work, and I’ve been busy. I did get to see Steve Job’s …
GNOME 2.30 Antony So GNOME 2.30 (a desktop environment/graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system) was released today. But …
New job! Antony Today I started my first day at HP. I’m working on the Linux side of their imaging and printing solutions group in American Fork, UT. …
New blog! Antony After spending too much time trying to edit blogger templates I decided to switch my blog over from Blogger to WordPress. When the …
Mozilla's comeback in Javascript performance Antony In the beginning there was Netscape (though there were lesser known browsers before that). Then, seeing the opportunity to gain more …
Motorola Droid! Antony I’ve had a lot of phones over the years. Since 2005 they’ve all been smartphones. My first smartphone was an HTC Titan (Sprint Mogul). I …
A personal response from Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Antony 3 Months ago I was given a T-Mobile HTC G1 (Android) phone. I really like the phone. The OS is good, and the Market (App Store) is second …
Denon AVR-2310CI Antony Just got my Denon AVR-2310CI from 6ave.com . Replaced a new Yamaha V765 (I sold for what I paid for it) Overall I am happy, but a few …
Comcast, and spoofing MAC addresses Antony Two weeks ago I got married. Its amazing how so much planning (and money) goes into an event that just lasts a few hours. For our honeymoon …
a word of warning for Linux users planning on installing Windows 7 Antony I’m a desktop Linux user. However, I’m not like some Linux users who fear microsoft, and won’t ever use a microsoft product. I use Linux …
Android, and its hardware Antony For those who don’t know, Android is an operating system developed by Google for mobile phones. I’ve fiddled with Android (and coded a …
New work Antony So, I started a new job last week. I’m doing server stuff for a small startup company. It’s mostly Linux, but as the world is still lagging …
Google Voice Antony For those of you who remember, Google bought a small startup company called GrandCentral. GrandCentral has a brilliant, simple idea that …
bugs in ext4 (Linux filesystem) Antony Despite the ext4 filesystem losing its dev tag and being labelled as stable in Linux 2.6.28, there are problems. One of the ways the ext4 …
Yet another leap year bug Antony As some of you may have read, the Microsoft Zune (Microsoft’s competitor to the iPod Classic) has a serious bug, where on the last day of …
new phone Antony I was hoping to have an Android phone by now. Problem is, the only Android device is for T-Mobile, the world worst cellular provider (at …
Web stuff Antony As some of you might have noticed, Google released a ‘new’ web browser Google Chrome recently. First, and most obvious: Google isn’t stupid. …
OpenOffice 3 released Antony This week marks the official release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 I’ve always been in love with OSS (Open Source Software) since the first OSS …
Android officially announced! Antony As previously thought, T-Mobile will be the first carrier, and HTC will be the first Handset maker. Compare the above photo to the prototype …
my take on KDE 4 Antony KDE is a Desktop environment like GNOME (for *nix systems). Whilst there are some historical reasons for them both existing (KDE was …
update on phone situation Antony Since my last post on phones, I’ve had a chance to play with both the Samsung Instinct and the new iPhone 3G. Also, as an fyi, my personal …
Linux guru? then switch to Arch Linux! Antony It’s official, I’ve ditched Debian (and Ubuntu) completely. All my computers are now running Arch Linux. Why did I switch? It’s more stable, …
a review of the Jawbone 2 Antony You must have seen the original Jawbone around: It was the first bluetooth headset that really tried to look cool, instead of some E.T. …
Bill Gates retires! Antony It’s official, Bill Gates is now retiring. The new Microsoft Head Honcho is Steve Ballmer. This is a sad, sad day. Being a linux user, I …
The new (and slightly improved) iPhone 3G Antony First, I’ll make my stance on the phone, and then I’ll get into details. The iPhone, is currently (by far) the best mobile phone available. …
The Super Heatsink/Fan Antony I’ll briefly explain how you cool a computer. Most people might think you cool a computer by placing a fan over the parts that get hot. …
Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’ released today! Antony Ubuntu has been my primary OS for more than 2 years. I’ve been using Hardy Heron for about 5 months now (since alpha 1). Depending on your …
Electrical Engineering Senior Project: Quadrotor Antony As a requirement to receive my bachelors in Electrical Engineering, I had to pick a senior project to complete. Amongst the options were …
Abiword 2.6.0 released! Antony After more than 2 years of no releases, Abiword 2.6.0 has finally been released. I have sort of a love-hate relationship with it. On the one …
New job Antony Being that this will be my last summer before I graduate, I figured right now would probably be a pretty good time to get an internship. I …
How to write an xorg.conf file for linux Antony For those who don’t know what an ‘xorg.conf’ file is, it’s basically the file in Linux operating systems that tells the system what graphics …
my laptop purchasing history Antony Those of you who know me well, know I’m rather good at getting top of the line stuff (with regards to technology) for cheap. I’ve been …
explanation of some optimizations done at compile time Antony I got a couple of complaints that recent posts have been aimed at techie people. In my last post, I explained a little about gcc, which is …
can firefox be improved just by recompiling ? Antony I took an Engineering class a year ago that was all about compilers and Computer Architecture. Using GCC, (which used to stand for GNU C …
Bill Gates admits Vista sucks Antony watch the 10 second clip here I must say, as much as I hate most microsoft things (except Office), I do like Bill Gates. It’s a shame Steve …
review of Google’s Mobile OS: Android Antony Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps, aren’t interested in new and cool technologies, you must have heard of the iPhone. The …
Review of Brasero 0.70: gnome burning software Antony Built on GTK+ 2, the burning program Brasero is now part of the GNOME project. Upon opening, it gives you a great, unbloated (cough, cough …
Vista SP1 to lie about RAM usage. Deliberately! Antony Most somewhat techie users know all about Microsoft and their recent Vista disaster. One of the biggest problems is that they have about 16 …
OpenOffice goes online! Antony Gael Duval, the creator of Mandriva and now CEO of Ulteo (ironically Ulteo is based on Debian, and not Mandriva, or any other RPM based …
MS Vista pirated half as much as Windows XP Antony It’s true, Steve Ballmer (#2 at Microsoft after Bill Gates) has twisted the figures yet again! Apparently, Vista is being pirated half as …
Windows vs Linux Benchmarks with Matlab Antony I finally got around to getting Matlab 2007b (7.5) to work in Linux. It’s not overly difficult, but it certainly isn’t the double-click the …
Black Friday Extraordinaire Antony Despite supposedly being on holiday in Las Vegas for Thanksgiving, I still couldn’t pass up on some incredible deals. What’s the best thing …
Gmail 2.0 launched! Antony Only a few accounts have received it so far, but it’s a minor change on the outside (albeit it has been re-engineered under the hood) The …
Gmail finally does IMAP Antony and it’s about time, too! For those of you who use an email client (like Thunderbird) and have been popping off mail, you will have noticed …
Ubuntu 7.10 released! Antony Each April and October Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu, this time code-named Gutsy Gibbon. A quick background to Ubuntu and linux …
Intel 45nm CPU prices! Antony Every 2 years or so, Intel switches to a smaller fabrication process. This decreases heat substantially, and allows them to increase …
Mac vs PC ads… Antony If you’ve ever seen any of the MAC vs PC ads you’ll know that Apple is not subtle when it criticizes Windows. The two basic points of the …
Stereo amplifier Antony Me holding my latest invention! A stereo amplifier It has mic. input, volume control, balance control, bass control, treble control and a …
Black Friday camping! Antony It’s black Friday today. It’s the Friday after thanksgiving and it’s always the busiest shopping day of the year. Most retailers open very …
Release of Ubuntu 6.10 (codename: Edgy Eft) Antony Those of you who know me well will know that about 8 months ago I got fed up with windows crashing for the last time, and switched to Linux. …
How much does a degree in Electrical Engineering cost ? Antony Apparently, it costs $125 more than the cost of tuition/books. The deeper I look, the more I realise that there are tons of hidden costs. At …
Why I switched to Linux Antony I recently have been beta testing Microsoft’s latest and greatest (and oft delayed) OS (Operating System): Windows Vista. While Microsoft …
